City: Downtown 'strip club' dangerous, unsanitary

5:43 PM,
Oct. 17, 2013

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Cincinnati officials are seeking to close a Downtown bar, saying it illegally operates a strip club where violence has escalated to the point that police refuse to work there as off-duty security.

Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Melba Marsh held a hearing Thursday to determine, as the city requested, that the Diamond Palace be declared a nuisance and closed for at least a year.After the hearing, the case was continued until Oct. 29.

The bar, in Downtown's 400 block of Elm Street, has been allowing women to perform nude or semi-nude, the city's legal complaint states, in violation of ...